Electromagnetic Specturm
Image Composite
Landsat 8 Bands
Landsat 8 Band Combinations
Supervised Method
Demo Data - Landsat 8 + QGIS Project
The results of the 7/6/4 combination in the greater Boston region:
7/6/4 Band Combination for Boston Region, MA
The short-wave infrared band combination uses SWIR-2 (7), SWIR-1 (6), and red (4). This composite displays vegetation in shades of green. While darker shades of green indicate denser vegetation, sparse vegetation has lighter shades. Urban areas are blue and soils have various shades of brown.
Landsat 8 Band Descriptions
Load the QGIS project located in the assignment directory - Demo Data - Landsat 8 + QGIS Project
Discuss & Explore Classification w/in QGIS:
Base Imagery + Training Polygons for Image Classification